I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?